Dreaming about sex .....we all do!

Jun 18 2007

Canadian researchers say men and women have the same amount of dreams of a sexual nature.

A new study by University of Montreal psychology professor Antonio Zadra has found that both genders have about 8% of dreams containing some form of sexual-related activity.

Dr. Zadra arrived at this conclusion after examining more than 3,500 dream reports collected from both men and women and he found that the most common type of sexual dream related to sexual intercourse, followed by sexual propositions, kissing, fantasies and masturbation.

For the study 109 women and 64 men with an average age of 30, were asked to keep a dream diary for two to four weeks.

In all, they recorded 3,564 dreams of which 292 included sexual content.

Both men and women reported experiencing an orgasm in about 4 per cent of their sexual dreams and while women reported that orgasms were experienced by other people who figured in their dreams, men did not report other characters experiencing orgasms in their dreams.

Current or past partners were identified in 20 per cent of women's sexual dreams, compared to 14 per cent for men, and public figures such as movie stars and politicians were twice as likely to be the object of women's sexual dreams, while men were twice as likely to report dreaming of multiple sex partners.

Dr. Zadra suggests that differences in the content of everyday sexual dreams may reflect people's waking needs, experiences, attitudes, and concerns regarding sexuality.

The findings were presented in Minneapolis at Sleep 2007, a joint venture of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society.